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The clarion., 1887-04-27
A Skillful and Grand Fight.
Aberdeen Examiner.

Aberdeen Examiner.
We hope the managers of the Gulf &
Ship Island Railroad will realize the i'm
portance of completing the work on the
lower division of their line before Con-
greSs re-assembies. We do not believe
it possible for single "unearned land
grant" to run the gauntlet of another
long session, and it is almost absolutely
certain that the one to the Gulf q Ship
Island road will be revoked by the Fif-
tieth Congress, if it can be reached by
the Committee on Public Lands, before
the company, by completing its line, has
earned it. Messrs. Walthall, Van Eaton
and Barksdale, made a skillful aud grand
fight for time last Congress, but their
tactics will not win again.
This is the timely warning which
Major Jonas sends out in his paper from
his place of observation at Washington.
From what we know of The management
of the road, we can safely say that they
are using their utmost endeayors in the
direction indicated; and that when Con-
gress meets, it will have no reason for
refusing to extend the time of the
grant
The clarion., 1887-04-27

OUR solicitude has been awakened by
rumors of the serious illness of our
esteemed friend, Mai. Mason, of the
Port Gibson ReveiHe; and we are graft
fed by the announcement in his last
paper that he is able to resume his la -
bors. May the day be far distant when
his Rereille shall cease its welcome
sound.
The clarion., 1887-04-27

Senatobia Record: The attention Of
our readers is especially invited to the
article on the first page, written by DIR.
Ward, of Winona, which is one of the
bellum days, that has ever been written,
and should not only be carefully read,
but filed away for future reference.
We fully endorse every sentiment in
the article, and if anything could be
added to 1t, 1t would be more extended
notice of the noble womanhood OF the
South.
The clarion., 1887-04-27

The New York Tribune, having sent
out circular letter to obtain the views
of Grand Army Posts concerning the
pension vetoes of President Cleveland,
General Lucius Fairchild, the Com
mander-in Chief of the Grand Army,
has issued an order forbidding the Posts
to furnish any information on the sub
iact
The clarion., 1887-04-27

The Mexican House has adopted an
amendment to the constitution permit
ting one reelection of a President 1t
is said that the amendment will pass the
Senate without debate, and certainly be
ratified by the States. The vote in the
House was l34 to TO- This action looks
to the reelection of President Diaz
The clarion., 1887-04-27

A WAsnINGToN special to the Times
Democrat says that Secretary DeLeon,
manager of the National Drill, has now
heard from all the Southern companies
definitely as to their intentions. Only
four have determined to withdraw
These are the Atlanta Rifles, the Mont
gomery Grays, the Montgomery True
Blues, and the Capital City Guards, of
Jackson, Miss. All the others have ex-
pressed their intention to be present"
The clarion., 1887-04-27

"HoN. JAMES G. BLAINE received a
delegation from the Irish-Amerlcan and
one from the German-American Club in
his parlors to-day, but at his request no
speeches were made"-is a press dis
patch dated Chicago April %. Mr..
Blaine will never forget the Rum,
Romanism and Rebellion" episode. 1t
is his ever present nightmare.
The clarion., 1887-04-27

a CONTEMPORARY says that a policy
which pays in gold bonds that were is
sued payable in gold or silver is a cheat
upon the debt-payer and a corresponding
bonus to the bond holder. Sherman
will find this record in his way to the
White House. This is true. The law
of 1879, under which the bonds were is
sued, says that they are payable sin
coin" and it is so written on their face.
"Coin" means silver, as well as gold; or
it used to mean it under the old time
dispensation before the reign of the
bond-holders' oligarchy.
The clarion., 1887-04-27
They May as Well Give it up.

1t is believed that the object of this
oppressive policy is to make the Inter
state Commerce law so odious as to pro-
woke a general demand for its repeal
when the Fiftieth Congress shall meet
next December. If the trunk line man
ayers seriously entertain such q design
they may as well give it up. Congress
will probably amend the law in such
manner as to remove doubts concerning
some of its provisions and to make its
general operation more effective, but
government control over the railroads of
the country is more likely to be strength
ened than relaxed By giving the In
terstate Commerce law a strained inter
probation, so that it may be made obi
Gus and oppressive, the trunk lines are
taking a sure method to invite more
drastic legislation by Congress. Only
by just and liberal policy can the
further intervention of the government
in railroad affairs be prevented.-Phi-
Gdelphid Record.
The clarion., 1887-04-27

The Hay Growers Convention will
meet at Aberdeen on Tuesday next, May
Sd. The attendance from this and
adjoining States promises to be very
large. Reduced railroad fare can be
obtained by applying at once for certif-
cate to r. b. Haughton, Secretary
Aberdeen.
The clarion., 1887-04-27

The announcement Of Hon. II. G.
Williamson, as a candidate for the State
Senate, appears in this issue. He was
one Of the most faithful and efficient
Representatives in the last Legislature,
and his aspirations for the Senate will
be received with great favor throughout
Kinds county.
The clarion., 1887-04-27

Hon. A. III. BRANTLEY, in an ably
written and patriotic address to the
voters of the Fifth Judicial District,
declines to be candidate for re-nomi-
nation to the office of District Attorney.
He has made faithful, fearless and
impartial officer, and retires, after
service of nearly eight years, with a
splendid record. The District has an
ample supply of irst-class material for
the position.
The clarion., 1887-04-27

LIEUT.. JNo. w. DANNENHowER, one
of the two surviving officers OF the ILL.,
fated Jeanette Arctic expedition, com
mitted suicide at Annapolis, in his quar-
ters in the Naval Academy, on the 20th.
He leaves a wife and two children.
The clarion., 1887-04-27

GEN. SIMON BOLIVAR BUCKNER, Dem
ocrat, of course, viii be the next Cover
nor Of Kentucky if he live till after
next Inauguration day. In mild sort
Of way this is departure from an es-
tablished custom of Horace Greely when
he was making the Tribune great-never
to prophesy.
The clarion., 1887-04-27
!" Must. .

st. Louis Republican.
Congress has not taken the manage
ment of the railroads out of the hands
of the companies" writes Judge Cooley.
''It has simply established certain gen.
eral principles under which interstate
commerce must be conducted" "Must"
is the right word, but it viii take the
railroad syndicate year or so to
realize it.
The clarion., 1887-04-27

THERE is more truth than poetry in
the statement made by Mr.. John Bright
that the reason high tariffs are main
tanned is that those who are protected
are an organized army, while the con
sumers are merely mob.
The clarion., 1887-04-27

The country located near the junction
of the States of Arkansas, Kansas and
Missouri, was visited by cyclones or
whirlwinds, Thursday evening last. 1t
is reported that fifty persons were
killed.
The clarion., 1887-04-27
NUNNERY, ADM'E., !

Appeal from the Chancery Court of
Amite county. Hon. LAUGH McLau-
rim, Chancellor.
B. F. Johns, for the appellant.
I. Mcknight, for the appellee.
In 1886 the probate court of Amite
county granted to Samuel O'Neal letters
of guardianship of the person and estate
of Robert II. Day, then a minor. O'Neal
executed guardians bond with John
81. Nunnery and Joseph Hughes as his
sureties. On October 6, 1877, Robert FL.
Day became of age. Hughes died soon
afterwards, intestate, and no admins
traitor has since been appointed. On
November IL 1884, Day presented his
petition to the Chancellor against
Samuel O'Neal and John II. Num-
merry setting out the above facts
The clarion., 1887-04-27

TBE President has appointed Surgeon
Geo. NJ. Sternberg, U. 5. A., an eminent
bacterialogist and microscopic to CON
duct the investigation of the process of
incubation for the prevention of yellow
fever as provided for by Congress.
The clarion., 1887-04-27

MARSHALL & BRUCE, of Nashville,
have been awarded the State contract
for publishing the Code Of Alabama for
$l3, 200, being the lowest bid of four
councillors
The clarion., 1887-04-27

Greenville Times: Certainly Judge
Cooley could have selected no more
arduous, difficult and doubtful field in
which to serve the people. But if he
can achieve results, if he can thwart the
efforts of the railroad combination to
force the repeal of the interstate COM
merce law, be can name high reward.
The clarion., 1887-04-27

TIE Supreme Court, on Monday, af-
frmed the death sentence Of William
Steele for the murder Of Nelson Potter,
and fixed Wednesday, June lst, for his
execution.
The clarion., 1887-04-27

Mr.. /. EEGLAND, Of Clinton, who was
assaulted for the purpose Of robbery,
died from the effects Of the injuries ne
received, on the 2lst.
The clarion., 1887-04-27
Just So.

If Mr.. Postmaster General Villas is real
ly looking wistfully to the Vice Presiden-
cy, he had better make haste to inform his
Democratic feIlow-eitizen why a Repubii-
can is retained as Postmaster at Washing
ton City.-Courier-J
The clarion., 1887-04-27

JUDGE EDwAkD +. BINGHAM, of
Ohio, has been appointed Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court Of the District Of
Columbia, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Chief Justice Carter
The clarion., 1887-04-27

The Wisconsin Legislature has passed
All alien land bin fixing the maximum
acreage which may be owned by man
who is not a citizen, at 320.
The clarion., 1887-04-27
An American Jubilee.
[emphis Avalanche.

Memphis Avalanche.
The New York World pronounces
Henry J. Shellman's ode, read to the
Maryianders, who were celebrating the
fiftieth anniversary of Carroll county's
jubilee, ''more musical than that of
Tennyson's." Here is part of the first
stanza:
"Half ceatury's come and gone,
Full fifty years have passed away,
Since over PARIS Ridge burst the dawn
OF Carroll county's natal day"
Tennyson's Jubilee ode-a doubtful COM
pliment, but Mr.. Shellman's verses are
prosy enough. The second line was
clearly thrown in merely to complete
the meter and supply rhyme-a der
nier resort, which is bad form, in itself.
IF the muses. had demanded, he might
as well have continued:
Hall centry's come and gone,
Some fifty years have passed away
Twice twenty y-five (as sure's you bornl,
OF five times ten, as many say
Or ten and forty, some again
VIII have it; some two score and ten,
Since over Parr's Ridge burst the dawn
OF Carroll county's natal day,
And "naial" means the day you re born.
While Ridge" shows how the land doth
lay.
1t isn't remarkable that hundreds of
native-born Americans can write better
poetry than Tennyson has recently
written, but the wonder is how such a
scrub Pegasus as Mr.. Shellman ever
secured a post on bright and sparkling
paper like the Texas Siftings.
The clarion., 1887-04-27
DECISIONS OF SUPREME COURT.
REPORTED FOR THE CLARION BY C. c.
CAMPBELL.
MONDAY, April %, 1887

MONDAY, April ., 1857.
The following cases were affirmed
5459 Thomas Rigby V. George S. Irving.
5461-W. II. Noble V. A. C. Terrell, ct al.
54S0-H. J. Hatcher V. II. L. Gurley.
5493 Alabama Great Southern Il. Il. Co.
V. Handy Rhodes.
5495-W. J. Kiernan Y. 5. p. Forsee.
5499-William Steele V. State of Missis-
sippi.
$500. 7. stinson & Co., V. C. c. Acker
The clarion., 1887-04-27

The Secretary of the Interior has re-
commended the Attorney General to in
stitute suit against ]. Y. Sage, for 315,-
900 feet Of pine lumber cut eff public
land in this State.
The clarion., 1887-04-27

The following cases were rcuersed and
remanded
Merchants Wharfboat Association
V. VIM Wood & Co.
5465-Merchants Whariboat Association
V. Chas. E. Livingston
54S6-Walter F. Lamar V. State OF Missis-
sippi.
54SS-Silver Greek Navigation Company
V. NJ. Z. Mangum.
The clarion., 1887-04-27
For the senate.

SILVER is rising again. 1t IS almost
a. hard to bury as John Barleycorn.
The clarion., 1887-04-27

Winona Times: DIR. B. F. Wards
article in defense of the South, pub
lished in The CLARION, was copied by
the Avalanche, aud was telegraphed IN
full to the New York Herald. TIE
article is perhaps the ablest defense ever
written and will be preserved as valu-
ablo Souvenir by Southern people. Dr.
Ward has received a great many eompll-
mentarY letter..
The clarion., 1887-04-27

4Half a century's come and gone,
Full fifty years have passed away,
Since over PARIS Ridge burst the dawr
OF Carroll county's natal day"
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-09
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MlsCELLANEOUS.
GEO E STEWART.
Dr . 7 SMOKE
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Cor. Min and Second streets, Wichita Kansas
VIII guarantee To cure any cssa Of piles No knife.
IixatUre, caustC= Or detaEtion from business DIS
eases of the recJura by the Einseraofa sE-tem Z
speciality.
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and 70 m: residence - Topeka ave. +" ichl1s
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Wichita eagle., 1887-02-09
PHYSICIANS

DR. CAROLINE LE BEAU
z,,ar,,bf. t4vt-orsrht, ard Ela,-srjc treatment
49, Ms.xr.,a Diseases Of c1iii-eD Snt nose 49,
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31

cessful. Now destroy the forests from
here to the Gulf of Mexico, cut the
trees which shelter the lakes and hold
the surfaces of the land from the scorch-
ing rays of the sun, and let the clouds
come along over these arid surfaces
when all moisture has been driven into
space, and then what? They never
reach us here at all, for all the moisture
has gone and the clouds are annihi-
lated. Again, suppose the clouds reach
us, and the arid surfaces from the waste
of forest are here, the increased heat
prevents the normal fall of rain and
drouth is the result" There is APP
parently much force in this presenta-
ton; nevertheless, the influences which
affect local precipitation of moisture
are exceedingly complex. In some sea-
sons those portions of the West which
have lately been afflicted by disastrous
drouth have had copious rains, and the
early chronicles of the Plymouth Col
ony, written at time when the whole
eastern country was covered with an
unbroken forest, record drouths as Sc
we're as any in recent times. The con-
clusion is that the solution of these
chronological problems has not yet been
reached, and that it can only be reached
by experiments accurately conducted
through a great number of years.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
The Future of Wheat Production.

The total wheat crop of the United
States the present year will not much
exceed four hundred million bushels,
which is much below the average of the
best years. In the opinion of some
competent observers this country has
not only reached, but has passed, the
limit of its capacity for wheat produc-
ton, and will soon be able to consume
all that it raises, leaving no surplus for
export. This is prospect that is less
alarming to our people than to those of
Great Britain and France. 1t happens
this year that the wheat crops of
Austria, Hungary and France are con-
siderably above the average, while an
unexpected increase of the yield in
southern England has caused decline
of several cents per bushel. But there
are other years when the European
crop is light and many millions of
bushels must be imported to supply the
deficiency. Last year Hon. j. w.
Bookwalter, a noted free-trade advo-
cate of Ohio, who had just returned
from a tour around the world, created
a scare among the western wheat
growers by predicting that India would
soon become a serious competitor of
the United States in supplying the
European demand for wheat. But it
is apparent that India's Importance as
a competitor is greatly overestimated
if the United States has reached, or
nearly reached, the limit of its capacity
as a wheat-producing country and our
great and ever-growing population will
soon be able to eat all the wheat we
can raise. AT the most, the quantity
this country can spare for export this
year will not be much in excess of fifty
million bushels. Provided this coun-
try could produce more of the goods,
etc., that it now has to buy abroad, it
would be no disadvantage to our wheat
growers if all of the surplus crop were
required for consumption by our own
people. According to all indications
the danger that our wheat-growers will
suffer because of diminished foreign
demand will become less serious from
year to year. If the population of the
United States were to remain stationary
and the wheat production should be
larger every year, then there might be
more ground for experimenting serious
results to our wheat-growers from the
cheap labor and increasing wheat pro-
duction of India. But as a matter of
fact we learn on good authority that
India is not likely to become formid-
able competitor to other wheat-growing
countries, because so fixed are the
industrial usages of her people that
great enlargement of her wheat area is
practically impossible, and also because
the quality of her wheat is inferior to
that raised elsewhere in the world.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
Climatic Value of Forests.

The recent floods in some parts of
the country and the terrible drouth in
the West are looked upon by some
journals as reminder that man cannot
wantonly denude the face of nature of
its forests and escape the penalty.
But men who have made the subject
one of profound study and investiga-
ton are not agreed concerning the
causes that bring about an increase or
diminution of the annual rainfall. A
western paper devoted to the interests
of lumbermen combats the theory that
the destruction of the forests is re-
sponsible for drouths, for it is found
that dry seasons prevail in well-wooded
countries quite as often as in regions
where there are no forests. 1t is GER
tain, however, that though a forest
may not affect the amount of rainfall
its influence in preserving and storing
water is very great and that mountains
and hills covered with timber protect
lowlands from sudden and destructive
freshets. Professor Sargent of Massa-
chusetts takes the ground that " forests
do not produce rain; rain produces the
forests, and without certain amount
of rain they cannot exist. Rainfall may
not be directly produced in large quanti-
ties by the condensation of atmospheric
moisture caused by the cloud-chilling
forest, but the indirect agency of tim
bered land in augmenting the supply of
rainfall which permeates the soil and
becomes agriculturally beneficial is GER
tainly very considerable"
On the other hand, Hon. Cassius NJ.
Clay of Kentucky, in a paper, two or
three years ago, maintained the propo-
sition that forests do influence rainfall
in times and quantity and locality. He
argued that all clouds bearing rain to
the Kentucky lowlands come from the
Gulf of Mexico, and depend upon COM
ing over Louisiana, Tennessee and
southern Kentucky uneXhausted. eff
from any cause" he continues, "they
are stripped of their water, we have a
rain famine. Again, if they are not
stripped of their moisture before they
reach us, and we have no cold winds
from the north or other points of the
compass, and no forests to cool them,
we have rain famine. If they come
unstripped of their moisture, and the
cold currents of air reach us from all OF
any direction with forests, we have the
normal rains and agriculture is sue.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
The Chinese Question.

At the recent meeting of the Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Science
the Chinese question was considered
from Chinese standpoint by Yau
Phon Lee, young graduate of Yale.
Referring to the labor riots and fights
against the Chinese, he said the Chinese
were first attacked because they were
the weakest. The Chinese agitation
has some show of reason, but its
strength rested on three erroneous as
symptoms: First, that the work to be
done and the fund for labor's remunera-
ton were fixed quantities, and that if
the Chinese were employed so much
would be taken from other laborers.
1T is sufficient" said the speaker,
"to reply that no economist holds this
view" Second, that the Pekin au-
thorities are anxious to get rid of its
redundant population. Mr.. Lee showed
this to be false. Third, that China's
four hundred millions are only waiting
for an opening to inundate the coun-
try. Said Mr.. Lee: "There is no cause
for apprehension. The immigration of
my compatriots has been exclusively
from Canton and the region around it
within radius of one hundred miles
Not single emigrant has hailed from
any other part of the empire. The
Mongolization of America is as far off
as the millennium. After twenty-five
years of unrestricted immigration your
patriotic agitators could muster only
two hundred thousand Chinese labor
ers in all the states and territories.
Place these figures side by side with
the three millions of immigrants from
England or Poland, which have never
had more than eight millions of in
habitants at any one time, and you will
be struck with the contrast. The
Chinese" said Mr.. Lee, dislike to
cut adrift from kindred. Their religion
is also hindrance to emigration. Only
the poorest are tempted to life of adj
venture. The Chinese first made their
way here with reluctance, often being
drugged and kidnapped. In time they
became super1uous. Their expulsion
became a political question. Dema-
gogues won favor by advocating the
cause of the sand-lot. Where eighty
thousand offices were at stake and the
hoodlums of California had to be petted,
it was easy to make the Chinese out to
be undesirable emigrants and to hood
wink the public with charges against
them, which were false or which might
be preferred against all emigrants."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31

NEW YORK has been the pivotal state
in all presidential elections, and the
plurality on either side has never been
over twenty-five thousand. This fact
makes the state convention of the
united labor party interesting and i'm
portant This is the party that gave
Henry George siXty-eight thousand
votes for mayor last fall. There is rea-
son to believe that the movement is
confined chiefly to New York city, but
if it is true that two-thirds of its
strength will be drawn from the demo-
cratic party the effect on the state cleo
ton can be readily seen. If New York
should be the pivotal state again next
year the labor party may make it i'm
possible for the democrats to carry the
state, whatever aid the latter may
have from the prohibition party. 1t is
possible, however, that the republicans
can elect president without New
York. This could be accomplished by
carrying all the states that Mr.. Blaine
carried in 1884, with Connecticut, In
diana, West Virginia, Virginia and
Tennessee. In view of the result in
Kentucky, it cannot be said that re-
publican prospects south of the Ohio
river are wholly discouraging.